U-S Inauguration day thoughts

Anecdotal too, years ago the "chit" given out for use at the "Canteen" was collectible, (NY history journal.) At Fort Drum, NY there was once an Italian P.O.W. camp and walking anywhere from there across the border, one would have to swim the now St. Lawrence Seaway, unlike an anecdote about Mexico. I think the camp was first a C.C.C. camp (Civilian Conservation Corps camp, there were Y.C.C.'s too, "Youth...) or so told during our Envirosphere Inc. survey (for Ebasco, Texas power plant builders, once in five top floors of the World Trade Center) initially archaeologically surveying the 110,000 acres for the relocation of the U-S Army 10th Mountain Division. I washed Melmac dishes in "Camp Timber Lake" near Phoenicia, (Allaben) New York in 1968. The USGS maps have it as "Camp Allegro" on the Broad Hollow Road in Ulster/Greene in the 1940s. ? While on another survey with a Welsh-Uruguayan (Mary FitzHerbert, recent grad with I, her husband part of Iberia Airlines) on a survey of then future, Tenn-Tombigbee Barge Canal, (which connects Mobile, AL on the Gulf of Mexico with Tennessee, and Ohio Rivers) we stopped in Aliceville, Alabama which has a small granite carved monument of a German man and a woman "peasants" in carved relief commemorating the P.O.W. camp there. Years ago, I mistakenly, asked the U-S National Archives about the ship S.S. Savannah (what I was actually asking about was the New York City, NY to Savannah, GA "Savannah Lines" which had the "S.S. City of Atlanta", which was built in 1903 in West Chester, PA, once a large shipbuilding town) early in 1942, was torpedoed by U-123 off Cape Hatteras with a Canadian grand-uncle in command. He also a registered "harbor pilot," advantageous then at war, I'm told for getting in and out of harbors. The "S.S. Savannah" which was renamed and armed, the National Archives wrote, picked up 243 (?) P.O.W.'s from a "German raider" off our coast. (A Q ship?) http://forums.audiworld.com/s4/msgs/737352.phtml There is an excellent book by Michael Gannon, "Operation Drumbeat" that goes into the "Battle of the Atlantic" (as it also went on in the days of "exploration"). It's been promised, that in the second edition re-printing, Master Mariner "Leman Urquhart," his name, once of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, will be correctly spelled. While I anecdotally get to the U-S National Archives, I would like to point out, that Dee Dee Myers, though the White House Press Secretary for three years, in the William J. Clinton presidency, she was left out of an article about the origin and history of that job, though the only woman to have served in it. The article, on the history of "White House Press Secretaries," published by the National Archives, begins with a New Yorker, once also a chairman of the Republican Party, George B. Cortelyou, a teacher of shorthand, states he was the first to speak regularly to the press in the White House, after the shooting of President McKinley in Buffalo, NY. He also held three Cabinet posts. There is an interesting brick monument in the Adirondacks' roadside marking President Theodore Roosevelt's "swearing in" en route to Buffalo, NY, that I've stopped at that needs more protection or "signage" I thought to throw in too. Raiders of the Lost Ark fact: To shoot the scene on Sallah's roof, crew members had to remove 300 television antennas from homes in Kairouan, Tunisia. TV hadn't been invented in 1936. - seen at the "Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth" site.